Re: compilartion error : label at end of compound statement

[Gowri Satish Adimulam <gowri@bitel.co.kr>]

Thanks every body 

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 08:18 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:07:52PM +0900, Gowri Satish Adimulam wrote:
> 
> > Hi ,
> > Iam trying to compile simple application with mips cross compiler ,
> 
> You didn't say which one.
> 
> (Fortunately it's obvious enough in this case)
> 
> > Iam getting the below error , 
> > i tried to google but unable to find relavent solution
> > 
> > any pointers will be helpful , 
> > 
> > ===============error==========
> > 
> > mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall    -c -o ls.o ls.c
> > ls.c: In function `donlist':
> > ls.c:591: error: label at end of compound statement
> 
> Something like:
> 
>         switch (x) {
>         case 3:
>         }
> 
> will result in this error message in C9x.  Solution:  insert a semicolon
> like:
> 
>         switch (x) {
>         case 3:
>       ;
>         }
> 
> The reason is that the C stanadard requires - and thus gcc since 3.4 (?) -
> a label to be followed by a statement and a semicolon alone is already
> an statement.
> 
>   Ralf